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What key skills are needed when writing a Review of the Literature? The key skill is to provide readers with just the right amount of literature regarding the sequence of events leading up to the current situation - not too much to make it tedious, nor too little so that the context of your research is not meaningful to them. The background information is useful because it allows you to:
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Wallwork, A. (2011). Review of the Literature. In: English for Writing Research Papers. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7922-3_14
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